Cutter mechanism.



A. TEAL. l CUTTER MEGHANISM.

APPLIOATION FILED JUNE 2,1903.

Patented Jam 18, 1910.

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ALBERT TEAB, OF DALLAS, OREGON.

CUTTER MECHANISM.

, a mechanism of the character indicated which is of simple construction and which may b-e manipulated with an expenditure of a minimum amount of energy.

The mechanism consists primarily of a bar upon which is mounted a number of iinger guards having peculiar relation to each other. A series of rotary cutters is also mounted upon the bar and means is provided for rotating the said cutters so that the alternate cutters rotate in the same direction and the adjacent cutters rotate in the opposite direction. The said cutters carry radially disposed blades which coperate with the finger guards in severing the stalks of the grain. The said rotary cutters are mounted in such proximity to each other that the blades of one cutter intermesh with the blades of the other although the blades of one cutter do not actually engage the blades of the adjacent cutters. The finger guards are arranged upon the cutter bar so that their parts which are directly against the cutter bar are in parallel relation While their pointed ends are pitched at angles to each other. This disposition facilitates the process of cutting the grain as will hereinafter appear.

Tn the accompanying drawing Figure l is a top plan view of a portion of the cutter mechanism with parts removed. Fig. 2 is a front elevation of the cutter mechanism with parts broken away. Fig. 3 is a top plan view of a portion of the finger bar showing the arrangement of the guard tingers thereon, and Fig. 4 is a transverse sectional view of the cutter mechanism.

The mechanism consists of the linger bar l upon which is mounted at intervals the vertically disposed pintles 2. The guard tingers 3 are attached to the under side of the bar l and their forward pointed ends project beyond the forward edge of the said Specification of Letters Patent.

Application tiled June 2, 1908.

Patented Jan. 18, 1910.

Serial No. 436,232.

bar. Some of the guard ngers are provided at their rear ends with the bracket arms t as shown in Fig. 4t which pass beyond the rear edge of the bar l and then up over the top of the bar and the upper end portions of the said bracket arms support the superimposed frame bar 5. The bar 5 is in parallel relation to the bar l and supports at intervals the bearings 6. The shaft 7 is journaled for rotation in the bearings 6 and lies between the bars l and 5. The guard plate 8 is supported upon the bar 5 and is inclined downwardly and forwardly over the bar l.

tation upon the pintles 2 and the radially `disposed blades l0 are carried by the said disks 9. The beveled pinions ll are mounted upon the upper sides of the disks 9 and mesh with the beveled piiiions l2 mounted i' upon the shaft 7.

By reference to Fig. 1 of the drawing, it will be seen that the cutting edges of the blades of adjacent disks are oppositely disposed. That is to say the cutting edges of the blades mounted upon one of the disks 9 disposed in the opposite direction from the cutting edges of the blades upon the next adjacent disks. Also the beveled pinion l2 meshes with one of the beveled pinions ll at one side thereof and the next adjacent beveled pinion l2 meshes with the correspond ing beveled pinion ll at the opposite side thereof. This is for the purpose of causing each alternate rotary cutting member throughout the series to rotate in the same direction while the intervening members rotate in the opposite direction. By reference to Fig. l of the drawing it will also be seen that the cutting blades of the rotary members intermesh with those blades of the adjacent members but that they do not actually have contact with each other.

Those portions of the guard fingers 3 which are directly adjacent the under side of the bar l are in parallel relation while the longitudinal axes of the pointed end portions of the said guard fingers are disposed at angles to each other. That is to say that the pointed end portion of one of the guard iingers is at an angle to the longitudinal axis of the same portion of the next adjacent guard finger. This disposition of the outer portions of the guard lingers is such as to facilitate the cutting of the grain while the cutting blades carried by the disks 9 rotate over the pointed end portions of the guard The disks 9 are journaled for roiv fingers. The pointed end portions of the guard lingers may be provided with ledger plates 13 as shown in Figfl or they may be devoid of such plates if desired.

The operation of the cutter mechanism is as follows: The shaft 7 is in a state of rotation and as the said shaft rotates rotary movement is transmitted from the samethrough the intermeshing beveled pinions 1Q plate l1 to the disks 9 of which the alternate ones rotate in the same direction and the intermediate disks rotate in the opposite direction. As the said disks ,rotate :they carry around the cutting blades 10 as above indicated and as the said blades sweep over the upper surfaces of the `guard lingers 3 l:the stalks of the standing .grain are severed. The guard .plate 8 prevents the said .grain after it has been severed from becoming `entangled with the :mechanisms located below vthe bar By reason fof the fact that the blades of the adjacent rotary "cutting :niembers intermesh but do not have actual cons tact with :each other the said pants may be 1 compactly arranged .along the finger bar 1 and inasmuch as the `cutting operation throughout the :series of rotating cutting members is alternately7 inthe lopposite direction the thrust or strain incident to the separating of the grain stalks will be `somewhat f divided or distributed in opposite directions and consequently the stress upon the cutting mechanism is in a measure equalized.

Having described my invention what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters- Patent is A cutter mechanism embodying ya finger bar, a frame bar yarranged thereabove, guard fingers secured to the nger bar, certain of which are provi-ded with a bracket arm to which the frame bar is bolted .and is held in parallelism with the linger bar, said rbracket arm extending rearwardly from the fingerbar and then forwardly Iand upwardly, shafts carried by the finger :ba-r, disks journaled lupon the shafts, knives secured to the disks,

beviel gears jou'rnaled on the -shafts :and to which the disks are secured, bearings bolted toand depending -from the frame bar, a drivshaft journaled in the bearings, and bevel gears carried by the shaft and meshing with the v'gears on :the disks.

lLn testimony lthat claim the foregoing yas my own, I :have 4hereto :afliXed signature in lthe presence of two witnesses.

ALBERT TEAL -Witnessesz l-loRT C. Einem, J. E. SrLEY. 

